{"id":985451,"date":"2026-01-14T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985451"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:34:07","slug":"digital-arrest-scam-in-delhi-retired-doctor-couple-duped-by-scammers-posing-as-mumbai-cops-loses-rs-15-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/digital-arrest-scam-in-delhi-retired-doctor-couple-duped-by-scammers-posing-as-mumbai-cops-loses-rs-15-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Digital arrest\u2019 scam in Delhi: Retired doctor couple duped by scammers posing as Mumbai cops; loses Rs 15 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a shocking case of cybercrime reported from south Delhi, a retired doctor couple was defrauded of around Rs 15 crore after being kept under \u2018digital arrest&#8217; for over two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly victims, who returned from the United States in 2016 and reside in the Greater Kailash area, were targeted by cybercriminals for about a fortnight while their children were abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a shocking case of cybercrime reported from south Delhi, a retired doctor couple was defrauded of around Rs 15 crore after being kept under \u2018digital arrest&#8217; for over two weeks. The elderly victims, who returned from the United States in 2016 and reside in the Greater Kailash area, were targeted by cybercriminals for about a fortnight while their children were abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}